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Scientific Name
Pimelea humilis
Family Name
THYMELAEACEAE
Common Name
Common or Dwarf Rice-flower
Status
Height
0.3m (30cm)
Flowers
Heads many-flowered, white tubular at ends of branches, outside covered with short hairs.
Fruit
Berries or drupes
Form
Small, tufted, many erect branches. Leaves 1cm, dark green, in opposite pairs.
Municipalities
Break O'Day; Brighton; Burnie; Central Highlands; Clarence; Derwent Valley; Devonport; Dorset; Georgetown; Glamorgan-Spring Bay; Glenorchy; Hobart; Kentish; Kingborough; Latrobe; Launceston; Meander Valley; Northern Midlands; Sorell; Southern Midlands; Tasman; Waratah-Wynyard; West Coast; West Tamar
Communities
Dry Eucalypt Forest and Woodland
Habitat Notes
Widespread in sclerophyll forests & fairly dry places.
Site Tolerance
Dry; Dry
Frost Tolerance
Moderate
Soil Tolerance
Fertile; Loam; Phosphorous intolerant; Well-drained
General Notes
Resistant to Phytophthora cinnamomi. Flowers attract nectar seeking butterflies on sunny days. Found in a variety of soil types and adapts very well to cultivation. Likes moderately well-drained soil, sunny or semi-shaded site, is hardy to most frosts and withstands extended dry periods. Plants respond well to pruning and mature plants can be sheared hard to rejuvenate them. Suitable below powerlines.
Propagation Details
Propagation Calendar
Flowering Months
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Seed Collecting Months
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Sowing Months
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Cutting Months
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Seed Information
Seed Collection
Pointed dry fruit. seed releases very quickly when ripe especially in hot weather. allow fruit to mature in warm place, rub over screens to remove outer covering
Seed Treatment Method
Seed Storage Life
Viable Seeds Per Gram
Seed Treatment Notes
Difficult to grow from seed. Smoke treatment not effective for humilis species. Erratic success with burning of twigs & leaf litter on top of seed. May respond to combined heat & smoke treatment.
Germination Time
Suitable for Direct Seeding
Cuttings
Expected Time to Take Root
Expected Time to Plant Out
Propagation by Division
N.B. Transplant only from nearby to avoid disease.
No
Cutting Notes
Usually grown from cuttings of barely firm young growth which strike readily. Care should be taken not to strip back the young bark. Young sucker growth is ideal for cuttings.
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